Re: issue with the URLs in the ID boilerplate

[Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman at vpnc.org>]

At 10:48 AM -0400 10/23/09, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:
>While removing cruft and shortening boilerplate are laudable goals, the _correct_ solution to having published ID's with URL's that no longer work, given that the namespace is under our control, is to FIX THE BROKEN PAGES!

If almost no one is using the URLs, then the correct solution is to get rid of them.

>There's no reason that http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt, which has worked for a very long time and is published in lots of places, should not continue to return a copy of the _current_ I-D abstracts file.

Sure, but that does not explain why every reader of every Internet Draft needs to see the URL.

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